Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, one thing to recognize evil as a fact. It is another to take evil to one's breast and call it good...
...Tlie rich grow richer, the poor poorer," wrote the bishop. "Year after year "has passed, crisis upon crisis, generation upon wasted generation, and while we live in the hopes of better days and of the public measures which shall remedy such fearful conditions, the evil grows, the wasting sickness prevails, and poverty increases its procession of victims...
...Lucrezia Borgia? To the incurable readers of melodrama and Sunday supplements, a woman of glowing and undimmed evil, literally the great femme fatale (usually poison) of the Italian Renaissance.* To modern historians, who have been quietly rehabilitating her, Lucrezia was a good deal less lurid but still deplorable: a woman who probably poisoned no soup herself but weakly watched the other Borgias doing such things...
...Dallis considered his answers carefully, for hypnosis, long the refuge of quacks and magicians, is once more acknowledged to have some valuable uses in psychiatry. A few weeks later, Cartoonist Dallis had Dr. Rex pitted against an artful con man named Landros, who was practicing hypnotism for his own evil purposes on a wealthy young matron. In the course of snagging the villain and turning him over to the law, Dr. Rex gives his readers a cautionary capsule on the value of hypnosis, and why only qualified physicians should make...
...Catholic censorship and authority to decide what books are fit reading for Catholics. "Whatever advantages may accrue to one through the use of his personal freedom," he said, "they have no real value if they impede or imperil the attainment of his eternal destiny. Hence it is not an evil but a good when those in authority . . . regulate the use of liberty by those subject to their jurisdiction...